Hurry Down Sunshine

Production Editor: Yvonne E. Cárdenas

To protect their privacy, names and identifying details of medical staff, patients, and their families have been changed. In a few minor instances, the chronology of events during Sally’s hospitalization have been slightly altered.

Brief portions of this book appeared, in an earlier form, in the author’s column in the Times Literary Supplement of London on July 14, 2006 and July 13, 2007.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Greenberg, Michael, 1952–

Hurry down sunshine / by Michael Greenberg.

p. cm.

1. Greenberg, Sally, 1981–2. Manic-depressive illness in adolescence—Patients—New York (State)—New York. 3. Parents of mentally ill children. I. Title.

RC516.G74 2008

362.196'8950092—dc22

[B]

2008002674

eISBN: 978-1-59051-325-5

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